A novel β-defensin structure: Big defensin changes its N-terminal structure to associate with the target membrane

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 7629-7635

  Kouno, Takahide ^a   Mizuguchi, Mineyuki ^a   Aizawa, Tomoyasu ^b   Shinoda, Hiroyuki ^a   Demura, Makoto ^b   Kawabata, Shun Ichiro ^c   Kawano, Keiichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; DEFENSINS; GLOBULAR CONFORMATIONS; HELIX STRUCTURES; HORSESHOE CRAB; HYDROPHOBIC DOMAINS; MICELLAR ENVIRONMENT; MICELLAR SOLUTION; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; N-TERMINALS; NMR SPECTRUM; PARAMAGNETIC PROBES;

AMINO ACIDS; MICELLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PEPTIDES;

AMINES;

BETA DEFENSIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MICELLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CELL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

POSIBACTERIA; TACHYPLEUS TRIDENTATUS;

EID: 68849090173     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900756y     Document Type: Article

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